10 OBSERVATIONS. 



Let it be remembered, at fuch mart of infe-- 

 grity, a horfe is feldom, if ever, difplayed in a 

 ftate of nature; he is thrown into a variety of 

 alluring attitudes, and a profufion oifalfe-Jire^ 

 by the powerful intermediation of ^r/ — that 

 predominant incentive the whip before, and 

 the aggravating ftimulus of the ginger behind, 

 (better underflood by the application of "^^- 

 ging'') giving to the horfe all the appearance of 

 ipirit, {infaBfear) that the injudicious fpec- 

 tator is too often imprudently induced to be- 

 lieve the fpontaneous effort of nature. 



During the fuperficial furvey, in thofe few 

 minutes allowed for infpedion and purchafe, 

 much fatisfadlory inveftigation cannot be ob- 

 tained; for, in the general hurry and con- 

 fufion of " fhe wing out," the fhort turns and 

 irrugular aSion of the horfe, the political and 

 occalional fmacks of the whip, the effedt of 

 emulation in the bidders, the loquacity of the 

 orator, and the fafcinating flourish of the ham- 

 mer, the qualifications of the objedt is fre- 

 quently forgotten, and every idea of perfedlion 

 buried in the fpirit of perfonal oppofition. 



Such 



